Daily Answers

1-across – Short shabby detective – US – I went there! : COLUMBUS

5-across – English: scratching head, unable to qualify : ENABLE

9-across – Edward by island on sailboat, reversing at water’s edge : POOLSIDE

10-across – Awkward, grand and long – at the outset, uncle’s hosted : GAUCHE

11-across – Everyman is improperly described by two lines making damaging accusation : LIBEL

13-across – Squeeze a beauty, we’re told, to arouse memories : RINGABELL

15-across – Postpone unit’s dance and indoor game : TABLEFOOTBALL

17-across – Range of human inaction unsettling : MOUNTAINCHAIN

21-across – On track, bat’s simple stroke : DOGPADDLE

22-across – Nosy astronauts left : NASAL

23-across – Studious, tense and wimpish : TWEEDY

24-across – Swayed, being camp : AFFECTED

26-across – Once again despatched gift without slightest hint of provocation : RESENT

27-across – Suffers sea song I butchered : AGONISES

1-down – Feuding family’s pills laced with uranium : CAPULETS

2-down – ‘Animal star sign.’ ‘Chameleon?’ ‘Not entirely.’ : LEO

3-down – Brief moments with that French woman – and wine : MOSELLE

4-down – ‘Undecorated’? Right to get rise, as base layer’s been applied : UNDERCOATED

6-down – Amateur artist to capture rising waterfall : NIAGARA

7-down – Great amounts rain heavily on blokes protecting duck : BUCKETLOADS

8-down – In placid manner, pick six characters from seven lycanthropes : EVENLY

12-down – Ones drawing fictional pig? They appeal to the girls : BABEMAGNETS

14-down – What the absent-minded : NOTGIVEAFIG

16-down – Doesn’t leave out trendy crosswords’ building blocks: about 500! : INCLUDES

18-down – Upriver, glimpsed along Nile’s drainage area: national, primarily? : UGANDAN

19-down – Relate to sorrow : CONCERN

20-down – Literary figure found meandering in Detroit, mostly : EDITOR

25-down – Stoves regularly seen in sets : TVS

1-across – Departed at the last minute : LATE

3-across – Clairvoyancy of the Dark Ages? : PRESCIENCE

9-across – Successfully wear dress that’s not loud : ROCK

10-across – Infernal class of exercises taking time? Son, they could be positive : BLOODTYPES

11-across – Puts in a call to Dover? Or Rugby? : CONTACTSPORT

15-across – Ditches storage’s cap; escalates, in part : ESCAPES

16-across – Pacify with a k-kind of pudding : APPEASE

17-across – Encourages rising, sets off to go around North : LEAVENS

19-across – In Oxford at the outset, intensively study flipping electrical engineer : MARCONI

20-across – Hotel’s rather fancy – here? : HEALTHRESORT

23-across – Everyman’s … average. ‘Rank’? That’s too much : IMMODERATE

24-across – When nothing changes if you turn back time? : NOON

25-across – Sum like ‘125 x 8’? : GRANDTOTAL

26-across – Man, perhaps, in audition the writer’s going to : ISLE

1-down – Clear ‘Hello!’ misread in French city : LAROCHELLE

2-down – Government economist in battered trenchcoat : TECHNOCRAT

4-down – Tells one that might be Des: About 1? : RELATES

5-down – Weapon’s deployed, obtaining vegetable : SNOWPEA

6-down – Distribute dodgy enterprises : INTERSPERSE

7-down – Rear of capuchin monkey? Scruff of the neck : NAPE

8-down – Otherwise, university in London’s backing English : ELSE

12-down – Got arrested : APPREHENDED

13-down – Stinking drunk, old and amorous : MALODOROUS

14-down – Struggle in unpicking ancestries : RESISTANCE

18-down – Some wholesaler, nouveau-riche, somewhere on the Med : SALERNO

19-down – Revered Hindu’s headgear pinched by parent : MAHATMA

21-down – Go round with would-be fiancé’s offering : RING

22-down – Crossword setter’s written up mother’s novel : EMMA

1-across – Is no longer interested in row, abandoned with gusto : OUTGROWS

5-across – Amateur scales back, being more than dozy : ASLEEP

9-across – Starts to figure out problem? Dandy! : FOP

10-across – Falling apart with bile, pair of unionists: slow down there! : BUILTUPAREA

12-across – One observes small tattoo put on part of chest as an alternative : SPECTATOR

13-across – Again performed piece of theatre didactically : REDID

14-across – Agitated, caused queasy feelings in the main : ROCKEDTHEBOAT

18-across – Often the alias is deployed to appear insincere : HITAFALSENOTE

20-across – One of our feathered friends who travelled around the world? : DRAKE

22-across – Rebooted downloads that may include many boxes : WOODLANDS

24-across – Husband wearing band, constant love token, beginning to sigh soft sounds : WHISPERINGS

25-across – Sense of self, such as love : EGO

26-across – Understand IT’s 1s and 0s? : DIGITS

27-across – Demonstrations in favour of taxes : PROTESTS

1-down – Clumsy pronouncement by easily surprised patron of seafood restaurant : OAFISH

2-down – Location up by Crete in resort for privileged : TOPSECRET

3-down – Discredit potato, on reflection? : REBUT

4-down – Kettle, perhaps one that’ll leak : WHISTLEBLOWER

6-down – Wonderful sandwich one found in Cape : SUPERHERO

7-down – At first, Everyman’s rattled, then embarrassed, having made mistakes : ERRED

8-down – Theatrical work, sweet thing in which children have fun : PLAYDATE

11-down – Pick up and convert this particular set piece : TURNTHECORNER

15-down – Supplier of stimulant high after cocaine, ecstasy : COFFEEPOT

16-down – Flowers sourced here, from Cole and Erskine : OLEANDERS

17-down – Dogged son had borrowed money : SHADOWED

19-down – A Caledonian’s fancy neckwear : ASCOTS

21-down – Imitating sound of mobile phone alert? : APING

23-down – In sound, tip for composer : LISZT

1-across – Bit of beer and a nut : HEAD

3-across – They mean the same thing : DITTOMARKS

9-across – In the lecture hall, study example of pond flora : REED

10-across – Cambodia’s king overtly to embrace act of invitation : ASKINGOVER

11-across – Old pile in a state: bingo! : COUNTRYHOUSE

15-across – Excerpt of text remembered in the end : EXTREME

16-across – Basis of a speech? : SOAPBOX

17-across – Briefly make the case for mullet? That’s mean : SELFISH

19-across – Heath promises to be monotonous : TEDIOUS

20-across – Mother’s involved with suave bewhiskered type : HARVESTMOUSE

23-across – Two airlines with grand facility for customers : CARRIERBAG

24-across – Everyman, I appreciate that, is given to self-reflection : META

25-across – Being sociable with group of journalists where music is made : MIXINGDESK

26-across – Primarily, hoopla yielding phoney enthusiasm? : HYPE

1-down – Bad luck that’s likely to grate? : HARDCHEESE

2-down – Commercial to liken Luxembourg to last thing in luxury – well enough! : ADEQUATELY

4-down – Splashy, tinselly, less large: so trendy : INSTYLE

5-down – Adapts Swift etc for the audience : TAILORS

6-down – The writer, funny character, to cover dirty old men in intros: great note! : MEGASTARDOM

7-down – Positive review of DJ’s gig : RAVE

8-down – Lover-boy rises, inflamed? : SORE

12-down – Partitioned carelessly, leading to apprehension : TREPIDATION

13-down – Yes, you: all bets are off : ABSOLUTELY

14-down – Old flame, slippery sort, heading off to scold and enrage : EXASPERATE

18-down – Performed a chore, removing duck that’s lingered awkwardly : HOVERED

19-down – In France, you run over small Italians : TUSCANS

21-down – Flipping computers making a racket : SCAM

22-down – Wine before kiss, that’s the heart of it : CRUX

1-across – Pauses in Hamlet upsetting : LETUPS

4-across – As these words are like most poetry : STRESSED

9-across – Perhaps Sturgeon’s gone east for pescatarian option : FISHPASTE

11-across – Stray found in mountains : RANGE

12-across – Follow edges of footprint? : TRACE

14-across – Lowers trousers, having consumed liquor: high-risk actions : MOONSHOTS

15-across – Critical memos rewritten; they only cover small areas : MICROCLIMATES

18-across – Greatly enjoy percussion overwhelming Sweden’s rowdy music : DRINKINGSONGS

20-across – At home with insignificant type, idiot, nothing, no-name : INCOGNITO

22-across – Send out one’s children : ISSUE

23-across – Cut – or pure, you say? : SHEAR

24-across – Stalls accommodating greedy-guts, prickly types : HEDGEHOGS

26-across – Aversion: staidest upset : DISTASTE

27-across – Guides some of gnus herself : USHERS

1-down – One magazine, then another: you’re here for it all! : LIFETIME

2-down – It’s decrepit? : TIS

3-down – Red / green / yellow ingredient topping Italy’s pizza’s … topping! : PEPPERONI

5-down – Article on public land leading to Parky’s indisposition : THECOMMONCOLD

6-down – Casts Cockney as gentry : EARLS

7-down – Young man with gloom lifting snogs wildly in erotic verse : SONGOFSONGS

8-down – Primarily, decidedly ritzy / elegantly styled – suit yourself! : DRESSY

10-down – Film rebooted: I Took The Limes : SOMELIKEITHOT

13-down – Fancy lady revamping sad churches : ARCHDUCHESS

16-down – Delicious quality: after time, wine going to head : TASTINESS

17-down – Rates fools, storing jam with no lid : ASSESSES

19-down – Passed over – lamented : MISSED

21-down – Creep up on a policeman in Limerick : GARDA

25-down – Everyman? Joke : ONE